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SUMMARY:Exhibition talk: Jewish Life in Vienna on the Eve of Deportations\, Dr Michaela Raggam-Blesch
DESCRIPTION:The nurse Mignon Langnas at the Jewish old age home\, Vienna 1942. Courtesy of George Langnas \nThe Anschluss to Nazi Germany radically changed the lives of the Jewish population. While anti–Jewish measures had progressed in Germany over the course of five years\, they were implemented in Austria overnight. \nMany Austrian Jews therefore tried to escape the Nazi terror in the months following the Nazi take-over. Between 1938 and 1941\, more than 130\,000 Jewish Austrians fled the country\, while overcoming bureaucratic hurdles and deliberate obstructions. Around 17\,000 of them were later on caught by the Nazi regime in their countries of refuge. \nAt the beginning of 1941\, there were still around 61\,000 people living in Vienna\, who were defined as Jewish under the Nazi Race Laws. The Jewish population was now completely impoverished due to Aryanization measures and deprivation by the Nazi authorities. This lecture will focus on Jewish life under Nazi rule on the eve of deportation\, describing the living conditions in the forced collective flats and the welfare institutions of the Jewish Community\, who attempted to alleviate the most pressing needs through soup kitchens\, health services and other forms of aid. \nAbout the speaker\nMichaela Raggam-Blesch is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna\, where she is working on her habilitation on “Mixed Families” during the Nazi period in Vienna\, funded by the Elise Richter grant (Austrian Science Fund) and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris). She is guest lecturer at the Universities of Vienna\, Klagenfurt and Graz\, and from 1999 to 2003 she worked at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. She has been the recipient of various fellowships and was awarded with the Leon Zelman Prize in 2022. Michaela Raggam-Blesch is curator of several exhibitions on the Holocaust – most recently of the exhibit on the Vienna Model of Radicalization: Austria and the Shoah.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-jewish-life-in-vienna-on-the-eve-of-deportations/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Holocaust in Austria
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition talk: Portrait of Wally: Opening the floodgates for restitution\, Shauna Isaac
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Vienna Model of Radicalisation: Austria and the Shoah exhibition event series  \nOne of the most significant cases of Nazi looting took place in 1998 when the Manhattan District Attorney seized Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally under the US stolen property act. This case captured the imagination of the public and changed the international conversation on restitution. This painting was looted from Viennese art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray\, who was Shauna Isaac’s great Aunt. Shauna will talk about her family’s fight to reclaim Portrait of Wally\, which spanned several decades. She will also discuss the influence that this case has had on contemporary restitution. \nAbout the speaker:  \nShauna Isaac has been active in World War II art recovery for several years and has worked with families and government organisations to return Nazi looted art. She set up the Central Registry on Looted Cultural Property and served as a member of the Working Group for the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague. Shauna studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Smith College. She is a regular lecturer at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her publications include articles for The Art Newspaper\, Times Literary Supplement and Art Quarterly. She is a contributor to the book Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British Visual Culture. \nThe talk will be chaired by Monica Bohm-Duchen. \nThis event is hosted in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders. \n \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-exhibition-talk-portrait-of-wally-opening-the-floodgates-for-restitution-shauna-isaac/
CATEGORIES:The Holocaust in Austria
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